Apparatus for showing kinematographic pictures.



A. ENGELSMANN.

APPARATUS FOR SHOWING KINEMATOGRAPHIO PICTURES.

'APPLIUATION FILED JANJ, 1910.

1,01 9, 141. Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

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the spectators eye AUGUST ENGELSMANN, OF GHABLOTTENBURG, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR SHOWING KINEMATOGRAIPHIO PICTURES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

Application filed January 7, 1810. Serial No. 536,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUcUsr ENGELS- MANN, a subject of the German Emperor, and residing at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Showing Kinematographic Pictures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for showing kinematographic pictures, and a primary object is to provide such apparatus comprising hidden, displaceable and ad justable reflecting surfaces onto which kinematographic pictures are rojected in front of an adjustable slantlng sheet of glass which serves simultaneously as a mirror in well-known manner and is arranged in front of a scenic background. The object of this arrangement is to enable the represented living pictures to appear in space, as it were, in front of the stationary scenic background with the aid of kinematographic films well-known in themselves which represent scenes without a background.

One illustrative embodiment of my invention is represented diagrammatically in elevation in the accompanying drawing.

Referring to the drawing, H denotes the scenic background which may be provided, similarly as in the case of stages, panoramas and the like, with plastic representa tions; G designates the transparent sheet of glass here shown as mounted in a frame and pivotally connected at its lower edge to the front of the stage H and which can be slanted optionally and through which B can see the background H. I

W, W designate suitable and reflecting, e. g. white surfaces pivoted at their lower edges,- each to a slide Y adapted to move longitudinally, or rotate about adjustable fastenings T so that the reflected rays passing from said surfaces may be thrown .on any portion of the glass sheet Gr to rlpduce ere- I fleeting surfaces W, W are shown in the drawing as mounted in frames and through their pivotal connections with the slides Y, Y, they can be slanted at any desired angle. On the surface W, W the moving pictures without a background are thrown by the kinematographic apiparw tuses K K,. These pictures are re ected by the sheet of glass G and appear to the spectator to be more or less in space back from the sheet of glass, the point 1 on surface W appearing at 1'. and the point 2 on surface W appearing at 2.

I claim 1. Combined with a stage having a background, an adjustable transparent sheet pivotally connected at its lower edge at the front of said stage, a refiectingsurface below said stage and in front of said transparent sheet pivotally mounted to be moved about a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, and also to be moved horizontally in a straight line, and a kinematograph adjusta ly mounted to project pictures on said reflecting surface from whence they are reflected to the transparent sheet and thence to an audience, whereby said reflected pictures appear in space behind the transparentsheet and before said background, which latter therefore forms a portion of the scene, and where, owing to the adjust-abil- "ity of the reflectin surfaces, the apparent 'kinematographs below said stage between the background and the reflecting surfaces, each kinemato raph adapted to project pictures on one 0 said reflecting surfaces and from thence to the glass plate where said pictures appear to the audience in space be? :Inetogruph, and to advance, recede, and tween ,said plate or sheet and the. back- 'pass one. another.

ground, each kinemato aphond accom- In testimony whereof, I :Tflix my signa" 1o panying reflecting sur ace being mdependture in the rese'nce of two witnesses.

5 ently adjustable ,and so arranged that PlC- UGUST ENGELSMANN.

tures. produced by one kinernatogre'ph can -Witnesses: be made to appear in space independently WOLDEMAR Hem, of the pictures produced by the other kinei-i EDWARD J. Bn'rrs. 

